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MESSAGK  OF  THE  TRESIDENT. 

•  Richmond,  Va,  May  18,  1864. 

To  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  : 

I  herewith  transmit  for  your  consideration  a  communication  from 
the  Attorney  General,  submitting  estimates  of  additional  appropria- 
tions required  for  the  support  of  the  Gorernment. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  ATTORNEY  GENERAL. 


C.  S.  A.,  Department  of  Justice,  ) 
Richmond,  Fa.,  May  17,  1864.      5 

To  the  President : 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  the  enclosed  report  of  the  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Printing,  containing  additional  estimates  for  the 
expenditures  of  that  bureau. 

GEO.  DAVIS, 

Attorney  General, 


C.  S.  A.,  Department  of  Justice,  j 

Brirenu  of  Public  Printing.,  \ 

Richmond,  Va.,  May  12,  1864.      ) 

Hon.  George  Davis, 

Attorney  General  : 

Sir  :  In  my  estsmatcs  of  the  20th  of  April  lasf  I  overlooked  the  fact 
that  at  the  last  session  of  Congress  a  resolution  was  passed  authorizing 
the  Joint  Committee  on  Public  Printing  to  make  a  tariff  of  prices  for 
•work  done  by  the  Publ?fc  Printer  ;  and,  also,  the  passage  of  a  law  for 
the  publication  of  four  thousand  copies  of  a  digest  of  tht5  laws  of 
the  provisional  and  permanent  Government.  The  joint  committee 
increased  the  prices  to  be  paid  the  Public  Printer  from  seventy  cents 
per  thousand  ems  to  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  and  for  press  work, 
from  seventy  cents  to  three  dollars  per  token. 

To  meet  this  increase  in  prices,  I  submit  the  following  additional 
estimates  for  this  bureau  from  the  30th  of  June  to  the  31st  of  Decem- 
ber ensuing : 

For  printing,  ruling,  and  binding  for  both  Houses  of  Congress, 
including  the  printing  of  the  laws  in  the  authorized  form,  and 
the  journals,  thirty  thousand  dollars,  $30,000 

For  printing  and  the  digest  of  the  laws,  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars, 10,000 
For  the  purcase  of  paper  for  the  digest  of  the  laws,  twenty 

thousand  dollars,  20,000 

I  have  the  honor,  sir,  to  be, 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 
GEO.  E.  W.  NELSON, 
Superintendent  of  Public  Printing. 


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